B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5039

2,118 lybrightness mag 6.37B6IV

Also catalogued as HD 116226 · HIP 65303

11,200 K

temperature

6.37

apparent magnitude

1,039× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,118 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

1,039×

the Sun's light output

-2.69

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5039B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5157 →290 ly apart
HR 5060 →300 ly apart
HR 5308 →350 ly apart
HR 5375 →380 ly apart
HR 4882 →410 ly apart
HR 4702 →480 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Centaurus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.